Sending Cavanagh off was not an option for ref Reilly

All-Ireland quarter-final weekends are big ones for the referees as well as the teams involved as it’s usually from this quartet that the final official is selected.

It can depend, of course, on the identity of the finalists as usually they don’t appoint a referee from the same province as either of the teams.

But at the moment Eddie Kinsella from Laois and Cavan’s Joe McQuillan are the leading contenders and both had fine games yesterday.